A dozen of the country’s jails now have such chronic staff shortages they are having to draft in officers from other prisons to help maintain order. The staff shortage has forced some jails... Read more

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) have published their End of Term report that covers the period up to August 2016. Progress of the IAP priorities, annual statistics... Read more

Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST said: “In the past 12 months the prison system has lurched from crisis to crisis contributing to a culture where often vulnerable people increasingly self... Read more

Every year around 9,000 women are sent to prison, yet the only risk of harm posed by most of them is to themselves. Suicides in prison are on the rise. Already this year five women have take... Read more

Aamer Anwar supports the call for a change in the law north and south of the border, so the family of anyone who dies in the care of the state is automatically granted non-means-tested legal... Read more

The Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody has published the fifth statistical report into deaths in custody – covering the period 2000-2014. The report shows a breakdown of all rec... Read more